Howe, Herbert A. (Herbert Alonzo), 1858-1926 · Meadville, Penna., Flood and Vincent · leaf 286
lipse and returns at stated intervals, loses some of itssubstance at each perihelion passage, and must bewasted away in time. Comets are sometimes accompanied by smaller com-panions. In 1889 one was seen which had no less thanfour of these attendants ; two of them were very faint,and did not last… … 28o A Study of the Sky Changes ofbrightness. Superstitiousterror. Collisions. the fate of one of them, which soon faded into invisibil-ity. The other made a brave show for a time, but cameback in a few weeks with a swelled head and no tail.The moral is obvious. Though the brightness of a comet…
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